Daniel 2 a vision of a great image representing four successive kingdoms.
History proves these to be the Chaldean Empire, followed by the Persian,
then the Greco-Macedonian, and finally the Roman Empire.
These four were to continue right up to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
Daniel 7, the prophet describes four beasts, representing four Gentile kingdoms,
but with special attention on the fourth—the Roman Empire.
This beast has 10 horns, which says “are ten kings that shall arise”
out of, or after, the Roman Empire (verse 24).
Daniel also describes a “little horn” which grew among the 10 horns
and uprooted the first three (verse 8).
in Revelation 13 discusses one beast—which represents the fourth, the Roman Empire.
John lived during the rule of the Roman Empire when he wrote the book of Revelation,
the three previous kingdoms. They were already fulfilled prophecy!
a beast with seven heads and 10 horns, one head of which received a deadly wound.
Historians agree that the Roman Empire existed from 31 b.c. to a.d. 476,
at which point the kingdom was crushed. It died. But its deadly wound was healed as prophesied.
to be 10 resurrections to come out of that Roman Empire (just as Daniel said),
the first three of which were plucked up by the roots by the “little horn”
that they were not altogether Roman, but nevertheless ruled within the
ancient Roman territory after the empire collapsed. And that’s what happened.
Three barbaric tribes did rule in the region before Justinian restored the Roman Empire
in a.d. 554 and effectively healed the deadly wound.
in Revelation 17 ,a beast with seven heads, but none of these heads is wounded.
a woman,the Bible symbolizes as a church, is riding the beast.
She is called a whore in verse 1, and therefore symbolizes a great false church
which rides, or heavily influences, this political beast.
When Justinian recognized the supremacy of the pope in 554, the Roman Empire was revived. And because of its close association with the great false church, this empire eventually assumed the name Holy Roman Empire. Counting Justinian’s empire, there have been six major, historically documented resurrections of the so-called Holy Roman Empire—all of which have been heavily influenced, and in some cases dominated, by the Vatican.
